''Spy City'' is a television miniseries created by
William Boyd William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to:
Academics
* William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster
* William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator
* William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), ...
about spies in 1961
Berlin, during the
Cold War
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. The series first aired in Germany, and
AMC+ picked up the rights to stream in the United States at
MIPTV.
Synopsis
A British spy is sent to Berlin in 1961 to uncover a mole in the United Kingdom's Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Cast and characters
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Dominic Cooper as Fielding Scott
* as Severine Bloch
*
Leonie Benesch as Eliza Hahn
* as Reinhart
*
Johanna Wokalek
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as Ulrike Faber
* as Conrad Greer
* Tom Ashley as George Brotherton
*
Rupert Vansittart as Ian Stuart-Hay
*
Adrian Lukis as Aldous Petrie
*
Tonio Arango
Tonio Arango (born 31 January 1963) is a German actor.
Born in Berlin, Arango is the son of a German mother and a Colombian father and grew up in Wilmersdorf, then part of West Berlin, surrounded by East Germany, with his brother Sascha A ...
as August Froben
* as Vasily Lubkov
* Mark Zak as Viktor Kovrin
*
Gabriel Andrews as Man #1
Episodes
Production
''Spy City'' entered development in 2014, when
Boyd created and began writing the show. It was initially planned to be a ten-episode series.
In 2019,
Dominic Cooper was cast in the lead role.
The series was shot in
Roudnice nad Labem,
Plzeň
Plzeň (; German and English: Pilsen, in German ) is a city in the Czech Republic. About west of Prague in western Bohemia, it is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 169,000 inhabita ...
,
Prague in Czech Republic, from 27 August to 30 November 2019, subbing for Berlin in 1960s. The series was co-produced by H&V Entertainment GmbH,
ZDF, Seven Stories (UK) and Wilma Film (Czech Republic) and was supported by FFF Bavaria, Nordmedia, German Motion Picture Fund and Czech Film Fund.
Release
Originally, all episodes were released in Germany on December 3, 2020 to the Magenta TV streaming service.
The series will be broadcast in Germany on
ZDF in Fall 2021.
ViacomCBS Global Distribution
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has the international distribution rights, and at
MIPTV,
AMC Networks purchased the rights for the United States for AMC+.
AMC+ is releasing the episodes on a weekly basis starting April 15, 2021.
aired the series in the UK on December 23, 2021.
Reception
The review aggregation website
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 70% approval rating, based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10.
Metacritic, calculated a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
References
External links
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* {{Rotten Tomatoes TV , id=spy_city
*
Spy City' at Nordmedia
2020 German television series debuts
English-language television shows
Espionage television series
Television series about the Cold War
Works by William Boyd (writer)
Television series by Miramax Television
Television series set in 1961
Television shows set in Berlin
ZDF original programming
MI6 in fiction
German spy television series